The Shawnee were a nomadic people, following animal populations throughout the winter months and establishing more permanent villages in the summers, where women gathered and tended to crops, while men hunted and served as warriors. The Shawnee language belongs to the Algonquian language family, along with other Ohio tribes like the Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami), and Ojibwe. Although the heartland of the Shawnee people appears to have been present-day southern Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, groups of Shawnee were spread across the eastern United States, living in Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia. Some scholars believe the Shawnee to be descendants of the ancient Fort Ancient people, a cultural group living in southwest Ohio during the Late Prehistoric Period (ca. Throughout their history, the Ohio River Valley was the Shawnee’s homeland where rich woods and prairies provided ideal hunting grounds and locations for villages. Today, the Shawnee are comprised of three federally recognized American Indian tribes-the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, located near Shawnee, Oklahoma Eastern Shawnee Tribe, located near Wyandotte, Oklahoma and the Shawnee Tribe, located in Miami, Oklahoma.
This is a lithograph of an oil painting of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa, or The Prophet, published in "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall.
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